Special topics in calamity physics / Marisha Pessl.

A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possesse...

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Main Author: Pessl, Marisha
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Othello / William Shakespeare
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
  • Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë
  • The House of the Seven Gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Woman in White / Wilkie Collins
  • Brave New World / Aldous Huxley
  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
  • Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert
  • Pygmalion / George Bernard Shaw
  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Agatha Christie
  • Moby Dick / Herman Melville
  • A Moveable Feast / Ernest Hemingway
  • Women in Love / D.H. Lawrence
  • "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill" / John Cheever
  • Sweet Bird of Youth / Tennessee Williams
  • Laughter in the Dark / Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales / Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • A Room with a View / E.M. Forster
  • Howl and other poems / Allen Ginsberg
  • The Taming of the Shrew / William Shakespeare
  • Deliverance / James Dickey
  • Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey
  • One Hundred Years of solitude / Gabriel García Márquez
  • Bleak House / Charles Dickens
  • The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler
  • Justine / Marquis de Sade
  • Quer Pasticciaccio Brutto de via Merulana / Carlo Emilio Gadda
  • Things Fall Apart / Chinua Achebe
  • The Nocturnal Conspiracy / Smoke Wyannoch Harvey
  • Che Guevara Talks to Young People / Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
  • "Good Country People" / Flannery O'Connor
  • The Trial / Franz Kafka
  • Paradise Lost / John Milton
  • The Secret Garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Metamorphoses / Ovid.